Quotes About Suffering

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.